CLST 201 Lecture Notes - Villanovan Culture, Vulci, Terramare Culture
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How do we know about roman history? o o o. Things he wrote about happened far before his time. Almost right in the middle (length-wise) of the peninsula o o. Greek sources (herodotus, thucydides) roman sources as well. First builders of cities in central italy on hilltops, fortified. Greeks came in to southern part of italy o o. Etruscan tombs: o o last only about 50 years o o o would have a big area anyways o. Tombs were meant to last because you"ll be dead forever; houses need. Would use cremation burial, so they wouldn"t need a big space, but they. Put things in the tomb for the person to use in afterlife. Etruscan cities: veii, caere, tarquinii, vulci (all in south); chiusi in north. Never united, just remained individual cities: made it easy for rome to conquer them city by city. At first had kings, but then aristocrats in late 6th cent: not surprising; common.